Actually, the internet has given me a lot of good things. corrine One good thing would be excellent access to the Dhamma and Buddhist forums. Surely, there is literature and Buddhist groups but groups are hundreds kilometers away and books costs and might be inadequate. Things have good and bad sid...

As suggested keeping mindfulness could ease formal meditation. Chores like cooking and washing dishes are quite meditative themselves already to me... Meditating while eating is also something I do. Chew food carefully, count 30 chews before swallowing it and concentrate taste of the food. This make...

Good texts have been in this thread, especially Panang put it well. :anjali: I thought excusing something with attachment sounds contradicting to Buddhism, but fact is also that we only Buddhists, not Buddhas. And we have attachments. Using something else than alcohol in food would resonate with pre...

Spending in monastery short period of time (months - 1 year) is intriguing and would probably be very beneficial for my practice. (I was a bit irregular in the past, but now I have got deeper conviction...) But there is several reasons right now that it won't happen in near future. For longer time -...

how important is meditation to following the Dhamma as taught by the Buddha? for all a persons study and intellectual knowledge can we really understand dukkha, anicca and annata without meditating? " To understand Anatta, you have to meditate. If you only intellectualize, your head will explode. O...

Hello, sometimes I hear from others that karma or the fruit of karma is only responsible for mind phenomens (feelings, mood). Other times I hear that karma is even responsible if one has wealth and success in life, so that for an evildoer there will come misfortune events in the future and a gooddo...

It'll be interesting to know what an advanced civilisation thinks of the Buddha Dhamma. On the other hand, they could be technologically advanced but still worship some weird alien god with 11 heads. I think the Dhamma has probably arisen in other civilizations too at some point in the infinite his...

I think good question would be why try to convert? If there is no rebirth or afterlife, Buddhism is more like lifestyle choice and philosophy. If my non-Buddhist friend is happy with their own conviction, there is no reason to convert. In that case only important think in the end of life would be wh...

I think they kind of break it. Surely, intoxicants may not break the precept in literal sense, but I still think that spirit of the precept covers also oneself. Of course, not harming other living beings is more important point of the precept, still... But this all is just my view. And yeah, I guess...

I'm not condoning the use of tobacco in any way, but the use of tobacco in any form does not break the 5th precept. In Thailand many monks use cigarettes & I'm sure that oral tobacco is also used by monks in some countries. There are health risks associated with any tobacco use but assuming you're ...

I think you just have to consider consequences of playing games and decide for yourself. You are responsible for you action only to yourself. (Another question would probably be, why play games instead of doing something else) There are definitely more harmful things to do, especially when you don't...

Today I had to go out and streets were extremely slippery, almost like an ice rink! I had to watch my every step and concentrate on walking there - right mindfulness in action. It was almost meditative!

I don't think many actively choose one tradition over another. It's more a matter of where their kamma leads them. I didn't "choose" Theravada. It was just that every time I found any inspiring texts on Buddhism, it was most often Theravada. It just makes most sense to me. Mahayana demands too much...